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by tazjin 10mo ago
> Or, we can expect better from software. Maybe someone can fork Firefox and make it run better, hard cap how much a browser window can use. You can already do this. For example, I use `systemd-run` to run browsers with CPU quotas applie
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by tazjin 10mo ago
> Is anyone else worried that a lot of people coming from the Rust world contribute to free software and mindlessly slap on it MIT license Yeah; I actually used to do that to (use the "default license"), but eventually came to
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by tazjin 10mo ago
(I know Erlang well, but haven't used Gleam) The library the parent links to says this: > Not all Erlang/OTP functionality is included in this library. Some is not possible to represent in a type safe way, so it is not included
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by tazjin 10mo ago
That is literally how a large fraction of airlines work. It's called Amadeus, and it did have a big global outage not too long ago.
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by tazjin 11mo ago
One particular cynical reading of that could be "the day I'm held responsible for my code is the day I quit".
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by tazjin 1y ago
In one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books there was a bit about the company that makes Marvin, the depressed robot, also making sentient elevators. These elevators had issues with getting depression, and the companies using
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by tazjin 1y ago
Assuming they're being economical (and considering the level of thinking TigerBeetle seems to put into stuff - they probably are) this might be only a few beefy physical servers. For them it seems safety and QA is a large part of the s
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by tazjin 1y ago
Your intuition is correct and the sibling comments are wrong. Modern LLM inference servers support hierarchical caches (where data moves to slower storage tiers), often with pluggable backends. A popular open-source backend for the "sl
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by tazjin 1y ago
This used to be fairly common, back in the old days. Programs like Pidgin unified many messengers into a single app. For a while, many messengers actually shared underlying protocols (e.g. Google Talk & Facebook were both using XMPP at
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by tazjin 1y ago
At this early time (this is not long after the invention of the phone itself) - none, really. Stockholm had a much higher number of telephones per home, but not very long after this operators put the cables underground and that was that.
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by tazjin 1y ago
Personally I like Babbel. It looks a bit dated (or did the last time I used it), but its content is really good and it helped me bootstrap 3 out of the 5 languages I speak fluently. There's no gamification like in Duolingo, you have
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by tazjin 1y ago
(GrapheneOS user, no Google services) My bank provides the APK of their app directly on their website, and it supports updating itself after that. Actually a surprising amount of apps do this! Other proprietary stuff I either get from RuSto
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by tazjin 1y ago
Serve even statical pages with direct DB access on every hit, using some slow and bloated JS/Python backend, and voila.
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by tazjin 1y ago
Would be cool to get an actual desktop screen with something like your screen tech.
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by tazjin 1y ago
Telegram's clients are open-source, and there's plenty of non-official ones, but for other proprietary messengers you're SOL. Hard to believe at this point that these messengers used to use open standard protocols, and you co
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by tazjin 1y ago
Of course they do in Moscow too, the metropolitan/commuter areas exist in most big cities. Seems to be about 8 million less than Moscow for Paris, 6 million less for London, based on what Wikipedia currently says about the respective m
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by tazjin 1y ago
Moscow has been integrating many of the commuter rail lines that run to various train stations in the city into essentially the metro network. This means building new stations, connecting them to existing metro stations where possible, unif
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by tazjin 1y ago
There's a few points to make here, actually, based on discussion of the article in the weeks before it hit HN: Two major and immediate reasons why the pulling is slow are clear and fixable: 1. Guix will try to substitute from unreachab
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by tazjin 1y ago
No, not at all. Huawei is targeting markets like China (obviously) and Russia, where the Google App Store is irrelevant. I've been using phones without Google Play for years. My point is that YMMV based on where you are.
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by tazjin 1y ago
Do you use the DeepSeek hosted R1, or a custom one? The published model has a note strongly recommending that you should not use system prompts at all, and that all instructions should be sent as user messages, so I'm just curious abou
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by tazjin 1y ago
> depending on the probability you assign to a conflict with China in the next five years And on who you would support in such a conflict! ;)
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by tazjin 1y ago
US-aligned IT specialists are uniquely propagandized (they're one of the main targets of Western propaganda for good reason - they have outsized influence!), so don't expect many reality-compatible takes on this website.
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by tazjin 1y ago
Their resolver resolves sites that should be censored in the EU, so it doesn't look like a government-aligned project.
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Yambda-5B – Industrial-scale music recommendation dataset(huggingface.co)
3 points by tazjin 1y ago|1 comments
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by tazjin 1y ago
This is a new public dataset that can be used for training (music) recommender systems, based on anonymized user track choices (for things like "users who like $X also like $Y" and so on). There's more technical info in the a
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by tazjin 1y ago
They're pretty common in Russia, too. In Muslim countries they're basically everywhere. When you're used to them it's very annoying to end up in a country that doesn't have them. Especially the US, which in addition
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by tazjin 1y ago
Checked out when it turned into bad geopolitics fiction.
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by tazjin 1y ago
It's not like anything critical is affected by this. For ordinary people it's things like buying Western games, but those all have workarounds (e.g. through crypto).
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by tazjin 1y ago
It's useful for evading illegal US sanctions, and sometimes also works just as a payment method. I paid a hosting provider with it earlier this year, and that actually worked well.
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by tazjin 1y ago
> Hiring of juniors is basically dead these days and it has been like this for about 10 years and I hate it We still have a large funnel of interns that end up becoming junior devs, and then progressing normally. I don't know the ex

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